* WhosOnFirst: His country's name is used in one of these sequences, which ultimately culminates in Roy being mistaken for him (since Roy said he was 'the king of nowhere', meaning not a king, and the hotel staff thought he said he was the King of the country called Nowhere.)

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* WhosOnFirst: His country's name is used in one of these sequences, which ultimately culminates in Roy being mistaken for him (since Roy said he was 'the "the king of nowhere', nowhere", meaning not a king, and the hotel staff thought he said he was the King of the country called Nowhere.)

* {{Determinator}}: Knew from the time she was a girl that she wanted to command her own ship, despite her father being an enlisted member of Julio's crew. She views captaining the ''Mechane'' as merely a jumping off point to getting her own ship.

* {{Determinator}}: Knew from the time she was a girl that she wanted to command her own ship, despite her father being an enlisted member of Julio's crew. She views captaining the ''Mechane'' as merely a jumping off point to getting her own ship.

* GenreSavvy: To be expected from Julio's second in command. she immediately realizes that, despite it being her ship, the Order, and more specifically Elan, had the current say when escaping Tarquin.

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* GenreSavvy: To be expected from Julio's second in command. she second-in-command. She immediately realizes that, despite it being her ship, the Order, and more specifically Elan, had have the current say when escaping Tarquin.

* MeaningfulName: Beatrix comes from the Latin word for "traveller", while "Secundus" is (literally speaking) Latin for "second", but can also mean "trusted right-hand man" (both fit, since she's the second in her family, after her father, to work under Julio and, as her father was, his trusted first mate -- turned acting captain). [[CaptainObvious Also, she wears a bandana.]] Her father's name, Fidel Secundus, literally means "faithful second."

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* MeaningfulName: Beatrix comes from the Latin word for "traveller", "traveler", while "Secundus" is (literally speaking) Latin for "second", but can also mean "trusted right-hand man" (both fit, since she's the second in her family, after her father, to work under Julio and, as her father was, his trusted first mate -- turned acting captain). [[CaptainObvious Also, she wears a bandana.]] Her father's name, Fidel Secundus, literally means "faithful second."second".

** Her claim that she's entitled to be captain because she's older than Bandana is countered when Carol points out that ''she's'' even older than both of them, and therefore logically has even more right to be captain. Andi immediately claims that it doesn't count because Carol's half-elf.

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** Her claim that she's entitled to be captain because she's older than Bandana is countered when Carol points out that ''she's'' even older than both of them, and therefore logically has even more right to be captain. Andi immediately claims that it doesn't count because Carol's half-elf. Carol is a half-elf.

* LeaderWannabe: While she often claims to be more fitting to run the ship, she quickly turns out to be very incompetant when compared to Bandana. Not only does she ''not'' even have seniority (there's a half-elf crew member), she proves to be indecisive, lacking the ability to command, and being more concerned with tying up Bandana than the approaching mountains. When Bandana points out that her gripe is rooted in being the former's old babysitter than any decision Bandana made presently, Andy's rebuttal is simply childish. Shortly afterwards, she shows herself to be completely willing to ignore the expertise of the crew ([[{{Hypocrite}} which she herself claimed Bandana was doing]]), which results in [[spoiler:Roy losing the Greenhilt family sword and possibly some more damage to the ship.]]

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* LeaderWannabe: While she often claims to be more fitting to run the ship, she quickly turns out to be very incompetant incompetent when compared to Bandana. Not only does she ''not'' even have seniority (there's a half-elf crew member), she proves to be indecisive, lacking the ability to command, and being more concerned with tying up Bandana than the approaching mountains. When Bandana points out that her gripe is rooted in being the former's old babysitter than any decision Bandana made presently, Andy's rebuttal is simply childish. Shortly afterwards, she shows herself to be completely willing to ignore the expertise of the crew ([[{{Hypocrite}} which she herself claimed Bandana was doing]]), which results in [[spoiler:Roy losing the Greenhilt family sword and possibly some more damage to the ship.]]

* DualWielding : She dual wields her kukris and shows skill with both hands. The only hint that she's not completely ambidextrous is when she attacks the Ettin: she attempts to cut off both heads simultaneously but only gets one because she misses the slice with her "off hand".

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* DualWielding : DualWielding: She dual wields dual-wields her kukris and shows skill with both hands. The only hint that she's not completely ambidextrous is when she attacks the Ettin: she attempts to cut off both heads simultaneously but only gets one because she misses the slice with her "off hand".

* GenreSavvy: To be expected from Julio's second in command, she immediately realizes that, despite it being her ship, the Order, and more specifically Elan, is in charge.

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* GenreSavvy: To be expected from Julio's second in command, command. she immediately realizes that, despite it being her ship, the Order, and more specifically Elan, is in charge.had the current say when escaping Tarquin.

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* ToughLove: Shown when she was tied up and had to reassure the crew. While lampshaded how it wasn't really comforting, she says that it's because of the serious matter at hand. She brings up they can be NeutralNoLonger and become more involved in the world affairs. However, it's clear that she does this because she cares for the crew. She does imply that she can be traditionally comforting, but only to her girlfriend.

* BloodOath: "I, Eugene Greenhilt, swear on the blood that flows from my wounds this day that I shall not rest, in this life or any other, until I or my heirs have enacted horrible vengeance on those that have slighted me, named here as Xykon the sorcerer." Comes back to bite him in the butt, hard, as he kept pushing off that quest to kill Xykon until he eventually died. Now he's pushing his son Roy towards it -- insulting him all the while for being a (in Eugene's mind) DumbMuscle fighter instead of a wizard like he was.

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* BloodOath: "I, Eugene Greenhilt, swear on the blood that flows from my wounds this day that I shall not rest, in this life or any other, until I or my heirs have enacted horrible vengeance on those that have slighted me, named here as Xykon the sorcerer." Comes back to bite him in the butt, hard, as he kept pushing off that quest to kill Xykon until he eventually died. Now he's pushing his son Roy towards it -- insulting him all the while for being a (in Eugene's mind) a DumbMuscle fighter instead of a wizard like he was.

* GretzkyHasTheBall: He thinks there are homeruns in soccer, and has no clue if winning a game by 3-2 is good. His wife Sara deconstructs this by pointing out that as smart as he is, he could easily learn the rules of any physical sport in a short time, but won't because he feels it's beneath him.

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* GretzkyHasTheBall: He thinks there are homeruns home runs in soccer, and has no clue if winning a game by 3-2 is good. His wife Sara deconstructs this by pointing out that as smart as he is, he could easily learn the rules of any physical sport in a short time, but won't because he feels it's beneath him.

** In ''Start of Darkness'', he advises Right-Eye to drop his quest to destroy Xykon by pointing out that, when he's dead, he won't look back and say "Darn, I didn't spend enough time on petty revenge." After he dies, Eugene will indeed end up regretting the fact that he didn't spend enough time on 'petty' revenge.

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** In ''Start of Darkness'', he advises Right-Eye to drop his quest to destroy Xykon by pointing out that, when he's dead, he won't look back and say "Darn, I didn't spend enough time on petty revenge." After he dies, Eugene will indeed end up regretting the fact that he didn't spend enough time on 'petty' "petty" revenge.

* NeverMyFault: His FatalFlaw is this, even going beyond his tempermental attention span. Eugene very rarely if at all takes the responsibilities for the consequences of his choices. This, tempered with his lack of devotion into his choices, keeps screwing him over, and his inability to recognize this causes problems for him and others around him. Most notably, he refuses to admit that the death of his second son Eric may be have been his fault because of his careless experimenting and that he made Roy fulfill his oath rather then take one last shot at it himself; this is why he's stuck at the gates while Roy is permitted to enter.** Roy more or less addresses his father not dealing with the consequences during their conversation on the ''Mechane'' (though he'sreferring to Eugene's frustration at being the only Oath spirit waiting and no one wanting to talk to him after the thing with the Celestial deva.)--> '''Roy:''' I'm sorry to hear that, but it sounds a lot like a white fluffly cloud-bed that you made yourself and you'd just rather not lie in it.--> '''Eugene:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I'm dead. I shouldn't have to mess with beds at all anymore]].

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* NeverMyFault: His FatalFlaw is this, even going beyond his tempermental temperamental attention span. Eugene very rarely if at all takes the responsibilities for the consequences of his choices. This, tempered with his lack of devotion into his choices, keeps screwing him over, and his inability to recognize this causes problems for him and others around him. Most notably, he refuses to admit that the death of his second son Eric may be have been his fault because of his careless experimenting and that he made Roy fulfill his oath rather then take one last shot at it himself; this is why he's stuck at the gates while Roy is permitted to enter.** enter. Roy more or less addresses his father not dealing with the consequences during their conversation on the ''Mechane'' (though he'sreferring he's referring to Eugene's frustration at being the only Oath spirit waiting and no one no-one wanting to talk to him after the thing with the Celestial deva.Deva.)--> '''Roy:''' -->'''Roy:''' I'm sorry to hear that, but it sounds a lot like a white fluffly cloud-bed that you made yourself and you'd just rather not lie in it.--> it.\\'''Eugene:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I'm dead. I shouldn't have to mess with beds at all anymore]].

* SpiritAdvisor: To Roy in the beginning. He's not tremendously helpful.

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* SpiritAdvisor: To He appears to Roy in ghost form in the beginning. beginning of the story to give advice or portent. He's not tremendously helpful.helpful, though, because of his general jerkassery.

* FollowInMyFootsteps: Listening to stories about his heroic adventurer grandfather inspired Roy to become one himself. A snippet of an argument with Eugene is Roy holding Greenhilt and saying "Don't you know we come from a line of fighters?"* OldMaster: Teaches Roy a sword feat in the afterlife -- a Counterspell feat for Fighters (timed strikes to disrupt spells during the moment the caster is casting). Turns out the feat is extinct by the time of the story and no Fighter alive knows it (until Roy).

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* FollowInMyFootsteps: Listening to stories about his heroic adventurer grandfather inspired Roy to become one himself. A snippet of an argument with Eugene is Roy holding the Greenhilt family sword and saying "Don't you know we come from a line of fighters?"* OldMaster: Teaches Roy a sword feat in the afterlife -- a Counterspell {{Counterspell}} feat for Fighters (timed strikes to disrupt spells during the moment the caster is casting). Turns out the feat is extinct by the time of the story and no Fighter alive knows it (until Roy).

* EveryoneHasStandards: When he asks Roy why he doesn't just [[spoiler:let the gods destroy the world in order to thwart the Snarl, thereby letting him move on to the afterlife, Roy reminds him that if that happens, the dwarves will be condemned to an eternity of slavery ruled over by Hel. Eugene concedes that his son has a point, and is pretty critical of the way the dwarven afterlife works.]]

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* EveryoneHasStandards: When he asks Roy why he doesn't just [[spoiler:let the gods destroy the world in order to thwart the Snarl, thereby letting him move on to the afterlife, Roy reminds him that if that happens, the dwarves will be condemned to an eternity of slavery ruled over by Hel. Eugene concedes that his son has a point, and is pretty critical of the way the dwarven afterlife works. Then ComicallyMissingThePoint rears its head and he suggests the dwarves should all commit suicide via dragon or a civil war.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: ItRunsInTheFamily apparently.* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Her favorite way of getting attention is flaunting herself, either to students or even to the ''teachers.'' It has no effect on Durkon, though, and he actually respectfully chastises her for it and talks to her about it later. The fact she listens to him and even says "yes sir" in regards to this implies that her disrespectful attitude comes from being able to flaunt herself to get her way before the steadfast Durkon set her straight.

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%%%%%%%%% "ItRunsInTheFamily apparently." This is not context. Pointing towards her family members does not talk about her. * DeadpanSnarker: ItRunsInTheFamily apparently.DeadpanSnarker: * IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Her favorite way of getting attention is flaunting herself, either to students or even to the ''teachers.'' It has no effect on Durkon, though, and he actually respectfully chastises her for it and talks to her about it later. The fact that she listens to him and even says "yes sir" in regards to this implies that her disrespectful attitude comes from being able to flaunt herself to get her way before the steadfast Durkon set her straight.

* GiveMeASword: [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0497.html "ROY! Heads up!"]]up!"]] You can't take it with you, you know? * FollowInMyFootsteps: Listening to stories about his heroic adventurer grandfather inspired Roy to become one himself. A snippet of an argument with Eugene is Roy holding Greenhilt and saying "Don't you know we come from a line of fighters?"

* MeaningfulName: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu Kudzu]] is the name of an invasive plant that can smother other vegetation. Considering the dwarves' enmity with trees, this can be a choice on Hilgya's part of rejecting their ways. (Although it should noted Kudzu is a plant that ''kills trees''.) Can also be a ShoutOut to the ''ComicStrip/{{Kudzu}}'' comic strip.

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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Kudzu's innocent, childish antics (notably, trying to grab his mother's helmet or watching with glee her scry spell) brings some visual humor to otherwise purely dialogue scenes.* MeaningfulName: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu Kudzu]] is the name of an invasive plant that can smother other vegetation. Considering the dwarves' enmity with trees, this can be a choice on Hilgya's part of rejecting their ways. (Although it should be noted Kudzu is a plant that ''kills trees''.) Can also be a ShoutOut to the ''ComicStrip/{{Kudzu}}'' comic strip.

* MeaningfulName: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu Kudzu]] is the name of an invasive plant that can smother other vegetation. Considering the dwarves' enmity with trees, this can be a choice on Hilgya's part of rejecting their ways. (Although it should noted Kudzu is a plant that ''kill trees''.) Can also be a ShoutOut to the ''ComicStrip/{{Kudzu}}'' comic strip.

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* MeaningfulName: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu Kudzu]] is the name of an invasive plant that can smother other vegetation. Considering the dwarves' enmity with trees, this can be a choice on Hilgya's part of rejecting their ways. (Although it should noted Kudzu is a plant that ''kill ''kills trees''.) Can also be a ShoutOut to the ''ComicStrip/{{Kudzu}}'' comic strip.

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